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Hit and Run Historyis a WGBH web-only series guest-produced by local filmmakers. In this prologue to the series, the crew tracks down the oldest and rarest of all American coins: The Columbia and Washington Medal.

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The history of the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift-and-shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.